Aug 28, 2009

DANCE POEMS

A reader asked for some more of these dance poems, so I have posted a few more. These are from the New York City Ballet's "Dancer's Choice" performance in June and are from excerpts of ballets, and thus a little shorter than poems accompanying complete pieces. A couple of people have expressed interest in seeing the Dance Poems collected in a small chapbook like my Film Poems, as a kind of companion volume. Anybody interested in publishing such a project?




JEROME ROBBINS
“DANCERS AT A GATHERING” (EXCERPT)

spangled peek

all the day gnomon

in garden
summit

mounting fanfare


arrest diagonal

divining ground



center

plasm akimbo

floater

bow

strider white
astride

pulsar

noble

trace
filigree slither


orbit

velocity

taper

rush line

DANCE POEMS



RICHARD TANNER
“EPISODES & SARCASMS” (EXCERPT)


chiaroscuro pyramid


labrys corridor rune
accordion

black bloom

sunflower eye lurker





scout bastion

blinder

Eurydice

heartbeat

moth night

splay moon

new

dusk orphan

wedge heart

pump

gather sentinel

briar spoke

crane eclipse

DANCE POEMS



GEORGE BALANCHINE
“VALSE-FANTASIE”




cloud line

tuck satyr

snake shadow

ionosphere

echo green

grown over
summon
liege

run

tube ripple

arrow

chime




mist pulse

lift over part

DANCE POEMS




JEROME ROBBINS
“IN G MAJOR” (EXCERPT)


repel air

seed drift

O

mote respite

divide

echo

runner atlas branch



marionette

atom scribe

sibyls

join

kite

brush

picture

lift

DANCE POEMS



PETER MARTINS
“THE WALTZ PROJECT” (EXCERPT)


Magnet figure

limp

pendulum
wing

globe

yellow clock

crab

minaret

track

slide sweeper

Sisyphus over

hail




tango sock


child’s drain bird

sleep

without

coy
return

malade ant

bubble compass

cross—




red windmill to tear
drop



over wick flame

staff
launch

fairy bird

cube

breathe

watcher go
ball

polis match
days over

Aug 26, 2009

La Fovea


I have two poems up at the website La Fovea, from a new project called "The Years," in which I write a poem for each year of my life. Click here. Thanks to Sandra Simonds for inviting me to the project. The image here will make sense if you read the poem...